Blessed redundancies abound in the Christian faith and life! Why say that God daily and richly forgives "in this Christian church"? Especially if God's forgiveness is the good news that He already announced through the Gospel that called us into the Church in the first place?
Because we need to hear it again! And again after that! The Holy Spirit works through the proclamation of the Gospel in the Church to "call, gather, enlighten and sanctify the whole Christian church on earth, and keep it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith"!
In other words, the Church keeps preaching the Gospel (daily; 24x7) and through that Gospel forgives sinners who believe it.
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